Using the right femoral artery, clinicians implanted an intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP), and were able to place a workhorse wire in the distal lumen of the LAD, thus restoring blood flow into the ...

The presence of significant stenoses (asterisk) in the proximal left anterior descending artery (LAD) and intermediate branch (IM) could be confirmed by conventional angiography.

The proximal and middle segments of the right coronary artery are most commonly affected (about 68% of cases), followed by the proximal LAD (60%) and left circumflex (50%).

Aug. 22, 2002 — Minimally invasive bypass surgery was better than stenting for a high-grade proximal left anterior descending (LAD) coronary artery stenosis, according to the results of a ...

They used an inflatable pneumatic cuff occluder positioned around the artery to create 30%, 50% and 70% narrowing of the proximal LAD artery. Power-Doppler volumes overlaid on anatomical B-mode ...

New 7-year data demonstrate similar long-term safety and effectiveness after PCI with sirolimus-eluting stents or minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass surgery in patients with isolated ...

The left anterior descending artery is usually the largest coronary artery, feeding over half of the heart with blood. The LAD runs on the left side of the heart before traveling down its front ...

Cardiac MRI demonstrated that the proximal two-thirds of the left anterior descending (LAD) artery had an intramural course, and confirmed the presence of mild, LV septal hypertrophy, with normal ...

In proximal lesions of the left anterior descending (LAD) artery, percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with bare-metal stents (BMS) yields equivalent outcomes compared with minimally invasive ...